tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9202849355254208824.post563197633115468535..comments2015-03-02T13:10:57.198-05:00Comments on Marvel Comics of the 1980s: What if the Dark Phoenix Saga never happened?Jason Shayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12326506125878276176noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9202849355254208824.post-16680228722316139192013-11-22T14:33:27.779-05:002013-11-22T14:33:27.779-05:00I don&#39;t get how Byrne comes off as &quot;nasty...I don&#39;t get how Byrne comes off as &quot;nasty&quot; in his statement, here. Just seems like the honest, personal musings of someone who was &quot;there.&quot; I don&#39;t see his comment about the book only getting &quot;hot&quot; when Paul Smith came on board as a slight to anyone. Sales numbers weren&#39;t calculated until much later in the game than they are today, and publishers were &quot;in the dark&quot; about how well a book was doing for quite some time. So, they didn&#39;t know the book was &quot;hot&quot; until Smith had already come on board.BollWeevilPrimehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06604189594978198173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9202849355254208824.post-33352925684083506672013-11-20T21:50:08.034-05:002013-11-20T21:50:08.034-05:00Top 10 from December 1984
1. X-Men
2. Alpha Flight...Top 10 from December 1984<br />1. X-Men<br />2. Alpha Flight<br />3. Thor<br />4. Phoenix Special<br />5. Fantastic Four<br />6. New Mutants<br />7. X-Men/Micronauts<br />8. Tales of the Teen Titans<br />9. Avengers<br />10. Hercules<br />(Byrne&#39;s Thing was #11)<br /><br />The FF sold well, but you&#39;re right Sean, not better than the X-Men, especially in those pre-X-crossover days.Jason Shayerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12326506125878276176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9202849355254208824.post-17030946827858653392013-11-20T21:44:56.567-05:002013-11-20T21:44:56.567-05:00I remember X-Men being &quot;hot&quot; well before...I remember X-Men being &quot;hot&quot; well before #165. It was X-Men and New Teen Titans that were the &quot;hot&quot; titles. There was even a crossover in 1982. I don&#39;t remember Fantastic Four selling more than X-Men. It was the other way around, for sure.Sean Buddehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08858803536783192213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9202849355254208824.post-47442572199895789692013-11-20T20:52:52.222-05:002013-11-20T20:52:52.222-05:00Sounds to me like Byrne is claiming that leaving t...Sounds to me like Byrne is claiming that leaving the book was the best thing for the X-men, Claremont and himself. There&#39;s perhaps some merit to that, after all sometimes creative teams need to split in order to achieve personal growth... And if Jean had survived, it&#39;s possible the status quo of the book might never have been shaken up the way it did when Cyclops left after Phoenix died on the Moon.<br /><br />Can&#39;t say I care too much for his indirect dig at Dave Cockrum when he claimed sales on Uncanny only went through the roof after Paul Smith came on. While certainly a great artist, Smith barely did six months worth of issues while Cockrum basically came up with half the team. Jef Willemsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14584770229321250898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9202849355254208824.post-60733698906106792652013-11-20T16:49:03.741-05:002013-11-20T16:49:03.741-05:00IndeedIndeedEsteban71noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9202849355254208824.post-77977286248122936822013-11-20T16:35:53.296-05:002013-11-20T16:35:53.296-05:00I don&#39;t know. If we leave the last paragraph o...I don&#39;t know. If we leave the last paragraph out, its is practically him saying the X-Men would not have reached its height if he had stopped Chris. And that there would always be risk of cancellation if things had stayed the way he wanted them storywise.César Hernández-Merazhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17999359003183615788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9202849355254208824.post-18166562050783275512013-11-20T14:44:58.427-05:002013-11-20T14:44:58.427-05:00Wow, he really comes across an insufferable here. ...Wow, he really comes across an insufferable here. More than usual I mean.kevin n.http://www.blogger.com/profile/07994270180787499885noreply@blogger.com